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'No amnesty' call for British soldiers from Protestant victim's daughter

Connla Young, Irish News, 5 December 2017 | 12 January 2018

Daughter of Robert Ritchie McKinnie, shot dead by a member of the Parachute Regiment in the Shankill area of Belfast in September 1972, says there should be no amnesty for soldiers involved in fatal shootings.

The PFC will oppose proposals in a report from the Westminster Defence Select Committee which recommends the protection from prosecution of British soldiers and RUC personnel, regardless of the evidence against them. This "Statue of Limitations", while coupled with a "truth recovery mechanism", woul...

Public Statement by the Police Ombudsman in accordance with Section 62 of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 1998. Relating to a complaint by the victims and survivors of THE MURDERS AT THE HEIGHTS BAR, LOUGHINISLAND, 18 JUNE 1994

ANSWERS DEMANDED ON WHY CONVICTED RUC MAN’S HOME WAS USED TO STORE LOUGHINISLAND GUNS

PFC | 09 June 2016

Families working with The Pat Finucane Centre and Justice for the Forgotten are deeply shocked to learn from today’s Police Ombudsman’s report that the weapons used to murder six people at The Heights Bar in Loughinisland were stored at the home of James Mitchell in Glenanne, South Armagh.

Declassified documents reveal army lobbied Attorney General not to prosecute soldiers

Barry McCaffrey, thedetail.tv | 15 April 2013

The Director of Public Prosecutions could be asked to reopen hundreds of Troubles-related cases involving killings from the 1970s following the discovery of statements in newly declassified papers which suggest soldiers were allowed to escape prosecution.